Previous Poll Results:Question: If you were a Japanese high school student, which club would you belong to?Choices:Sports Club - votes: 2202 (14.6%)Literature or Arts Club - votes: 1787 (11.9%)Math or Science Club - votes: 699 (4.6%)Going Home Club - votes: 3505 (23.3%)Parapsychology Club - votes: 344 (2.3%)Theater, Music, or Dance Club - votes: 1150 (7.6%)Photography, Computer, or Astronomy Club - votes: 1882 (12.5%)Manga Club - votes: 2247 (14.9%)Tea Ceremony, Kabuki, or History Club - votes: 613 (4.1%)No clubs, must go to Cram School - votes: 630 (4.2%)There were 15059 total votes.The poll ended: July 27th 2012

Going home wins. These guys can't wait to leave school. Guess it's like a prison, eh?

First I would take a walk and look at the trees while contemplating life. Then I would enjoy the rest of the night eating the food, drinking the beverages, and listening to the music. ORRRRRR...I would just stay home.

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I live near Washington, DC and every year there's the cherry blossom festival. It's different from the Japanese version, people don't really have gatherings under the trees. Anyways, I've never gone. I don't really see the point in going just to look at trees.

I've travelled a few hours to "just look at" the trees before, but declined to do so on future occasions. They're pretty and all, but as you said, they're just trees. I can see them just fine on my computer, anyway.

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@ Night Swan- same!! I actually had never heard of Hanami or even a festival about flowers/trees before I started reading manga (google is my friend.) Well, at least I could go if I really wanted to... I found there's a Cherry Blossom viewing at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden (again google). I'd like to see it one day.

I would be one of those people who takes a walk, btw, but it wouldn't be an annual event for me.

Ah, I'd love to go see the cherry blossoms in Japan. I've never had a chance to go... traveling to Japan is expensive. I think I'd spend the majority of the time looking at the trees by myself. I have seen pictures of it, but it'd be nice to go in person to appreciate the atmosphere. I'd like to see the cherry blossoms at different times of day to see what feeling you get from the scenery under different levels of light. To sit under them alone at night also sounds very nice.

The other activities (although I only have a vague idea of them... you have a picnic under the cherry trees with your friends/family?) and snacks also seem fun, so I'd like to spend a little time to do that as well.